Kjell Grant of Victoria is an industrial designer, architect, artist and educator.

Not only has Kjell Grant made his mark internationally as a designer - he has shown many aspiring Australian designers the pathway. Scotland-born Grant completed a Master in Fine Arts at Stirling University in 1947. He then pursued sculpture at Royal College of Arts in London under Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth and in 1953 graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master in Industrial Design from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago under the tuition of Mies van der Rohe. Grant attributes his entrepreneurial skills to time spent at the studio of industrial design pioneer Raymond Loewy in New York post study and speaks of the influences of his past teachers on his work as subconscious.

Initially visiting Australia in 1957 for Admiral to design televisions, Grant was to settle and launch Kjell Grant Design in his adopted country in 1959. Grant has developed products for Cartier, Orrefors and Rosenthal, while his Montreal chair design, made by Innerspace Australia (1967) is held in the permanent collection of MOMA New York and Powehouse Museum in Sydney. It was this hands on practice that earned Grant his promotion to the position of Professor of Design in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University. He was also instrumental in getting Melbourne Movement, not for profit collective off the ground in 1999. His vision of building an international reputation for Australian design has been achieved in spades after making the inaugural trek to Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milan Furniture Fair) – with a group of young designers in 2000. Numerous prototypes exhibited at Melbourne Movement events have since entered production and have been sold to consumers via manufacturers such as Moroso, ONA, Zanotta, Schiavello Industries, Ekbe, Alessi and Ikea.